BPPT tentang Lapindo

Membaca BPPT Simpulkan Lumpur Lapindo Bencana Alam, di tempo.
Bingung saya dengan kerjaan BPPT ini.
Bukannya ini lembaga pemerintah ya?
Ngapain bela-belain lapindo sih?
Sebenarnya pemerintah ada di pihak siapa sih?
Bukannya kalo ini dinyatakan bencana alam negara bakalan rugi karena harus menanggung kerugian yang ditimbulkan?
Pemerintah di pihak siapa sih?
Bukannya kalo negara dirugikan berarti pemerintah gagal mempertahankan aset negara?

Kenapa pemerintah nggak jadi penuntut lapindo aja, biar pengadilan/arbitrase yang menentukan siapa yang salah dan benar?
Kalo Lapindo ingin kesimpulan yang menguntungkan dia, biarkan dia cari tenaga ahli yang pendapatnya menguntungkan Lapindo. Mengapa harus BPPT, emang anggaran BPPT dari Lapindo? Pajak bapak ibu saya tuh! Atau khusus untuk urusan Lapindo ini proyek dari Lapindo agar pendapatnya yang bercap BPPT menguntungkan Lapindo?

Siapa ahli dari BPPT? Siapkah adu argumen head-to-head dengan ahli-ahli drilling yang menyatakan bahwa ini bukan bencana alam. Atau 'ahli' BPPT hanya berani mengeluarkan pendapat dibalik nama lembaga BPPT? Sementara di dalam BPPT sendiri belum tentu satu suara. Kasihan ahli-ahli BPPT yang mungkin tidak setuju dengan keputusan lembaganya.

Pak KK, bagaimana nih. masa saya harus menyesal karena ijazah saya Bapak yang teken?
"Kesimpulan tersebut merupakan data dan analisa NASA," kata Kusmayanto.
So what gitu loh kalo dari NASA? Kita punya BMG, Pak!

Kupang

Recent news about starvation in east Indonesian area including the province which the capital is this city made me want to share some story about it.

I went to this city, eh town kali ye, last year. It was a very hot town. Built upon lime coastal rock, I thought it must have a rigid land support that very good for a building's structure. Blue sky upon it remind me of sub tropical sky, that I rarely found in Java. In the night it even better, stars and moon looked very clear, this lack of electricity is such an advantage for astronomers, remembering Boscha observatorium that suffers of light pollution. The air was very dry, I could not stand for more than two hours without water. The people were nice, very nice, even though some of them have a such scary appearance, like me :D.


Like usual Indonesian bureaucratic customs, it was hard to show hospitality without glorious welcome. But behind the glorious ceremonials there were many problems. Inadequate equipments, unproper place, and something about payments. I really appreciated the people who have worked very hard for the event. I saw some exausted faces but they stayed on from 7a.m to 7p.m.

Eventhough there were glorious ceremonials, I saw also an admirable humble life of my event coordinator. His office is so "minimalist", his apparels and so did his son, but I know he showed his best to honour us. I would like to visit him again if I have the opportunity. At least I plan to go Soe, coldest town in the prairie, its weather may freeze gasoline. I hope I can realize this plan, yeah after Bukittinggi of course.

Anyhow everything was gone well, very well. I did my job, and did some short course for them eventhough it wasn't my formal responsibility. Anyway I was graduated from public university, that the cost was burdened upon everyone in this country, so ....

The farewell party was also very nice, toasted fish, vegetables in such Balinese "sambel plecing" style, and the best of all I didn't afraid of everything related to pork and alcohol. I really love these people. Thank you everyone. May God reunite us again.

The journey home was rather unpleasant. I was really angry at a beatiful stewardess who yelled at a migrant woman worker. I would like to point my finger and yelled back at her "Watch your manner lady, we're the same customers, you should serve us equally!". But I couldn't, I just faced her beatiful face angrily and said "you should be taught about manner". Fortunately she changed her attitude, and serve these women nicely. I didn't know this thing brought me into an undeterministic emotional feeling, remembering many sad story about these migrant women worker who might also financing some portion of my education cost. May God give them and their family bless, strength, courage and luck. I sat on the middle seat, between a migrant women worker and my fellow, but I could still look at scene outside the window. There were so many inhabitated mountain islands below us, brown without vegetation. Sometimes I saw grey plain dried grass and bushes islands, depicting how dry these islands. Such a beatiful scene for me who live in green Java for the entire life, but also scary, imagining I were there.

Visiting one of the poorest Indonesia province made me concious that there are many things to be done, to fight for, that what Mohammad Yunus said about living in developing countries.

Career

Five Good Reasons to Leave Your Job :
1. If you have witnessed or been asked to participate in unethical behavior, you are in a bad situation.
2. If the reality values of company (and environment) conflict with your own
3. If you can't handle stress
4. If your company or industry is in decline
5. If your relationship with the boss is beyond repair
and my contribution:
6. If you are paid, but have nothing to do in the most productive period of your life.
Among them I had 1 and 6 that ever influenced my decision.

Four Career Risks Worth Trying :
1. Going back to school
2. Changing careers
3. Refuse unprospective promotion
4. Starting business
Among them I had 1,2,4.

First pointer is grabbed from a lecturer in a itb milis post about IEEE CAREER ALERT for 19 Mar 2008.

Digital Single Lens Reflex

Here are some technical facts flavoured with [cynistic] opinion about digital SLR camera ownership:
1. Picture Size. Never overestimate the mega pixels size, it's value is the result of multiplication of width and length, therefore it grows quadratic. For example:
6.5mp=3152x2068pixels
8mp =3456x2304pixels
10mp = something less than 4000x(3/4)x that something pixels
conclusion: for a double size of picture you need quadruple mega pixels value, further more it means 20mp EOS-1Ds MarkIII is less than double size of 'cheap' EOS 300D. The word cheap is relative to EOS-1Ds MarkIII, if having EOS-1D MarkIII you may have 30 pieces of EOS 300D


2. Sensor size. This is the worst fact of a digital SLR. The sensor size is less than standar 35mm film camera. Here is an example of EOS system, xyD or xyzD series. Yes, not all series actually, one digit EOS series(xD) have 35mm sensor, but the price is too expensive for 35mm camera. If I had that much of money I'll choose Hasselblad's medium format one, and dream someday I can buy the digital back :D. Last month I saw a lady, bought a medium size film, yes a lady, I wonder how camera geek she is.
More over about this small sensor size is the difficulties of capturing architectural figures, you'll get more deviated towers unless you move hundreds meter backward.

3. Low light handling is simply voltage increments, therefore it is impossible to have a fine grain picture using a high ISO value. Using celluloid camera you can simply bought a more expensive film celluoid processed with particular fine grain chemicals processor.

Long live film celluloid camera!

Riots in Lhasa

This riots remind me of Jakarta '98, while rioters were targeting chinese property. So did in Lhasa, recently.
Can you believe, a totaliter government with vast secret agents could not overcome a riots before it was really happened? No one could mastermind and make this riots but the one who has power, the government itself, directly or by-proxy.

This world is not dumb. Wait for us in Beijing Olympics!
Justice and Freedom for All Nations.

oil price

Today news said that oil price hikes until 108USD a barrel, a new record after it was priced around 80USD. Really a painful news for oil importer country. But is this price hike caused by unbalance of demand and supply?
Several months ago OPEC said it was not about supply and demand, it was speculation. Maybe it was right.
Other opinion is about the USD value itself, which is used as oil currency. USD is falling down until less than 0.6EUR each. USD also collapse against other important currency such as YEN. Unfortunately IDR got no advantage of this crisis, there was an easy rule for IDR, if USD is strong, then IDR is weak; if USD is weak, then IDR is also weak. It is a truly.

So, is oil price hike or USD devaluated?

But there is a nice news for Indonesian, surely there won't be fuel price hike until 2009 election. SBY is not stupid enough to face 2009 election in public outcry!

Sometimes I got confused while thinking about this situation, OPEC member, oil exporter country, could not take any advantage of oil price hike. In my stupid opinion, most of Indonesia's oilfield is operated by multinational companies who take the most profit from oil price hike. If I were the owner of multinational companies, it is better to let this situation happens. Why the companies must increase their production, which means more variable cost, when it potentially decrease the oil price. This condition, which is maybe maximizing profit, probably was already calculated using sophisticated OR formula on high end computer sets. So it is nice to keep this situation for the company.
Pertamina is trying to increase its daily production, recruiting many new officer and engineer, but maybe when the production is sufficient, the price will fall down, overproduction happens, and so on. However it is not easy to face the Seven Sister or their descendants, they are controlling all oilfield over the world, even the countries and their politicians. Moreover these whole thing are worsened by corruptions in Pertamina itself.

Sweet song for 2009

Nice opinion from Endy Mouzardi Bayuni

It is all about subsidy. How incumbent candidates burden national budget to embrace people supports. Megawati did it before 2004 election, she postponed fuel price hike, but she failed to embrace people support.

Now SBY do the same..Let's see whether he succeed or not!
A really advantage of being an incumbent candidate.

For economics criminals, it is really a great opportunity to make a speculation and keep the commodities for anticipating inevitable fuel hike after election.

Corteous Language

Ngendikan ngagem basa krama alus kaliyan piyantun sepuh rumaos kula langkung sae. Sawanci kula wangsul saking Jakarta sesarengan kaliyan piyantun putri sawatawis yuswanipun sami kaliyan Ibu kula, kula rumaosaken ngendikan ngagem krama langkung mriyayeni lan ndadosaken tiyang enggal percados dateng kula. Sawatawis wekdal Ibu ingkang pinarak wonten kursi caket kula ketawis mboten rumaos sekeca, mbokbilih rumaos wonten gali ingkang bade lenggah sesarengan kagem sawatawis sedasa jam. Nanging sak sampunipun kula miwiti ngendikan ngagem basa krama ketawisipun ndadosaken piyantun putri legawa, lan purun crios ngenani kulawarga dalasan putra-putrinipun. Wanci kula nyuwun priksa ngenani putra-putrinipun, piyambakipun ngendikan bilih putranipun putri sedaya lan sampun krama sedaya. Wonten ing manah kula namung ngendikan dateng badan kula piyambak, nasib. Piyambakipun ngendikan ngenani putra mantu ingkang kedah nyambut damel bidal saking griyanipun wanci enjing umun-umun, lan kedah wangsul wanci dalu jalaran margi Jakarta ingkang macet. Kula namung inggah-inggih kemawon, lha wong pancen mekaten wontenipun.

Nanging ngendikan ngagem krama menika kok nggih mboten sekeca, awrat sanget tumrap lare enem kados kula menika. Kedah mikir wonten ing sawatawis wekdal menawi badhe ngendikan.

It takes longer time to write on this (faulty)corteous language than in (faulty)barbaric english.

Masjid along Jakarta Busway Lane

During some visit to Jakarta, I found it is rather difficult to find an easy access sanctuary along busway lane. Here are several of them:
1. Istiqlal, instead of taking istiqlal bus stop, it is better to take juanda bus stop, since Istiqlal gateway which is nearer to Istiqlal bus stop is usually closed unless it is praying time, but you can still enter it after walking some hundred meters to the main gateway.

Actually, this Masjid is not easy to be accessed from busway lane quickly, since there is usually long queue in harmoni busway central terminal. If you arrive in Gambir, this masjid is really near iff the pertamina gateway is opened.

2. Kebun Kacang. It is rather far from Sarinah bus stop. But if you hear adzan from sarinah probably it came from this Masjid, because the masjid is located exactly behind RRI building. Just walk to RRI building opposite of sarinah shopping center, walk to BI direction turn left, you'll find small road on your left "Kebun Kacang Road" turn left walk several hundred meters and you'll find the masjid on the left, near river bank.

3. Blok M. Actually it is not on busway lane, but it is really near from Blok M busway station. If you get out from Blok M terminal take Mabes Polri direction, ask someone you'll find it, it is very near from Blok M.

4. Al-Azhar. This is really my favourite. It is really on easy busway lane and near from blok M. Beatiful scene of Al-Azhar university students would be your bonus. For a Jakarta noob I highly recommend this sanctuary.

For me Jakarta is strange city, sometimes it makes me boring, feels ignored, but I also miss it, particularly Palmerah area. If somehow you feel its cruelty just go to the mosque, it is really a nice sanctuary.

Beijing Olympics

Many voices call for boycott on the olympics, but I think it is impossible. Instead of boycotts the olympics I saw an opportunity to raise people voice in the event.
Meanwhile thousand or million of eyes around the world keep an eye on China, China authority will not be able to hide their sin anymore, therefore a rally or whatsoever embracing justice and freedom can be held, and if the authority dare, any oppression charged with wrath will lead to international outcry!
we shall overcome!

w e s h a l l o v e r c o m e !

L a p i n d o

Berikut ini artikel tentang Lapindo dari Mas Rudi Rubiandini. Trust, 25Feb-2Maret 2008. Analisis ini sebelumnya pernah beredar di berbagai milis, kalau ndak salah dari LAPI, tapi baru sekarang saya temukan suatu pernyataan resmi.